DOK Leipzig 2018

After years in Israel the filmmaker returns to Nabbin in Czechia, the place where she grew up, the people among whom she once moved, back to ribald heartiness and houses with crumbling plaster. Behind the facades children crawl across tattered carpeting, there’s a lot of drinking and a little introspection, until real and hallucinated voices are indistinguishable.

DOK Leipzig 2018

The trauma of 9/11, the ideology of violent retribution, military service as a patriotic family tradition, the “unfairness” of today’s warfare – in their voice-overs, five young Afghanistan war veterans first establish familiar foundations. Joe, Torrie, Mike, James and Justin from Pittsburgh are slow to show us their faces.

DOK Leipzig 2018

The vast expanses of the salt deserts in north-western Argentina hold one of the largest lithium deposits in the world. International corporations are mining the “white gold”, depriving the indigenous people, who breed llamas and do traditional salt-mining for a living, of the precious ground water.